The TU 144 was meant to be the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde, but the rush to beat the West came at a cost. Engineers ...

This documentary tells the story of the Tupolev Tu-144, the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde. Developed amid intense ...

Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.

BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.

The Avro Vulcan, a thunderous and charismatic Cold War bomber, is the most well-known British bomber after the wartime ...

Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but it wasn't them. Which one actually did it first?

Since the last Concorde touched down for the final time in 2003, commercial aviation has operated at a curious standstill.

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was irredeemably broken. But for the most part, they marched through the same routines, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers who had survived years of fierce combat against German forces entered a sprawling complex of barracks and barbed wire in southern Poland known as Auschwitz. What they ...

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